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[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

About 23,000 homes in Southern California are still threatened by the wildfires, although firefighters have been able to contain many of them, reportsthe San Francisco Chronicle. Families from some evacuated areas wereable to return home yesterday. Head on over to Calitics’ Saturday Fire Thread for information about the SoCal fires, as well as how to donate blood if you’re in the San Diego area.

Home foreclosures have hit an all-time high in California,with a record 72,571 mortgage defaults reported in the third quarter,according to the San Jose Mercury News.  The greatest increasesoccurred in the Central Valley and the Inland Empire, although severalcounties in the Bay Area also experienced a record number offoreclosures.